Improvement in caps



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

BONIFAOE SCHARL,K OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAPS.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,032, dated March 18, 1873.

To att whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BoNIEAcE SGHAEL, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Multiform Caps, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to so form a single cap that it shall be capable of being instantly changed by the wearer into any one ot' nine different styles of caps, to suit the fancies of the wearer, or the changes of the weather, so as to serve the purposes of a cap for sleighing or skating, in sunshine or in stormy weather; and it consists in forming the body and top so as to be susceptible of receiving various modes, and in connecting the visor and band or shield to the body in such a manner that the whole may be turned up around the body, so as to present the same appearance on all sides, or the visor may be turned down so as to shield the eyes and not obstruct the vision.

Figure l is a side plan view representing a cap of the style worn by a Prussian nobleman, Fig. 2, same style with a visor. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the cap, style, Siberian sleighing.77 Fig. 4 is a similar View, showing the sameas an American skating-cap Fig. 5, same, with visor; Fig. 6, same as a storm slelghing-cap.77 Fig. 7 is a perspective View ofthe same, showing style of Alpine 5 Fig.

8, similar view, showing style of Alpine with visor, Fig. 9, similar view, showing style of' Alpine storm-cap.77 Fig. 10 is a vertical section through Fig. 2, showing point of attaching the visor. v

A is the body of the cap, which extends upward until it terminates in a dome-like shaped top, being lbroader from front to rear, where the sides join in a seam. B is the top, formed as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, but is capable of being formed into the style or fashion shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, or may be turned in at the center seam, as shown in Figs. 7, 8, and 9, forming the style of cap known as the Alpine. D is the visor, which is connected to the body A at a short distance fromsthe bottom of the same, as shown in Fig. 10. E is the band or shield connected to the lower edge of the body, and extending around the same. This with the visor forms a continuous band when turned up, as shown in Figs. 1, 4, and 7.

The visor may be formed of leather or other suitable material, and covered in the same material of which the band and body of the cap are formed outside; the other side of the visor and band is covered in the same material. The lining is of the usual construction.

This cap may be constructed of fur, or a cheaper article may be made of cloth.

It will be observed that the body of this cap is constructed higher than caps heretofore.

Having thus described my invention, what .I claim, and desire to secure b'y Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, the abovedescribed multiforni cap, composed of body A, top B, visor 1), and band or shield E, when constructed substantially as set forth.

BONIFACE SCHARL.

Witnesses SYLvENUs WALKER, J As. W. BINGHAM. 

